Energy and Climate Change written question – answered at on 20 January 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the number of jobs that will be created in the UK supply chain for the energy industry as a result of the provisions of the Energy Act 2013.
The Electricity Market Reform programme, which is implemented through provisions in the Energy Act 2013, could support up to a quarter of a million jobs by 2020 in the UK directly and through supply chains. The Department has not made an assessment of the split between jobs supported directly and through the supply chain.
Electricity market reform is already having an impact on investment and therefore employment. In October 2013 the key terms of an investment contract were agreed for Hinkley Point C, paving the way for construction of the first new UK nuclear power station in a generation. There has been a high level of interest in the Final Investment Decision Enabling for Renewables process and DECC has sent draft investment contracts to the 16 projects progressing in this process.
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